New Down album 20/11/26 - New single out now

[Giggles]

Haven't paid attention to Down in a long time. I'm only really be familiar with their second album. Never knew they did IV and didn't realise that Rex left in 2011    

[Pagan Saviour]

These songs are shit. As someone rightly said, anyone in the genre could come up with them.

[The Great Cull]

Both songs are weak as piss, as were the bits of the latest COC that I heard. Such a shame because they used to be so so good when they were younger

[mickO)))]

Artwork was never the bands strong point other than the iconic smoking Jesus.

Seen a bit of an interview with Keenan recently. Apparently they were in the same studio as Soundgarden back in the day. Keenan got his hands on the crown of thorns from their 'Jesus Christ Pose' video and someone took a pic of him smoking a joint wearing it.

I never heard that before I wonder if the original photo was ever posted online.

[astfgyl]

These songs are shit. As someone rightly said, anyone in the genre could come up with them.

The "anyone..." quote there is pretty much it. Other than the bit of pedigree in the band, nobody at all would listen to it. This is in stark contrast to Nola, which is a great album in its own right.

Edit: and I'm not even saying the tunes are particularly shit either,  they simply exist and not a lot else is all. I don't really see what these lads can do other than exactly that though, like what would we hope to hear from a new Down album?